SocialEngine Donates 1st Place Prize to Rainmaker API Challenge

They’re looking for more developers to build apps on top of their API that takes contacts from your address book and pumps them with the useful and relevant information that they’re missing. By submitting an app, you’ll have a chance of winning part of a $30,000 prize package that includes $2,500 in cash, an iPad 2 and a SocialEngine license complete with all our plugins!

The Rainmaker Developer API Challenge ends on June 30 so start your hacking!

3 Comments

I took a very close look at this, and I just don't see any use for it. The only input they accept is an email address. Most online profiles such as Facebook don't show the email address to the public, so the data gathered is slim to none. I entered a handful of email addresses and received no data.

Maybe there's something I'm missing, but taking an email address, looking for online profiles, and trying to gather public data is nothing more than a few lines of code.